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26 March 2020
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Emil Schuelke

Penguin cocktail shaker

Napier Company
USA, 1936
silver-plated brass 12¼ h × 4¾ w × 7 d in (31 × 12 × 18 cm)
estimate: $1,500–2,000
result: $3,380
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Impressed manufacturer's mark to underside ‘Napier Patents Pend. 234’.
literature: Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design, Stern, ppg. 156-157 Vintage Bar Ware, Visakay, pg. 82
An example of this work is held in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum.

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